Originally Posted by
diburning
We arrived at PHL about 15 minutes early, and there was no one around to operate the jet bridge.
I almost replied to this thread earlier with exactly this. I can't tell you how many times this has happened to me in PHL (I live in Philly). You arrive early, and then wind up being late, because there isn't anyone to operate the freaking jetbridge. Given this, plus the fact that Int. flights board 45 mins in advance (even earlier sometimes in my experience), plus any other tiny thing that could go wrong, I would definitely take that earlier connection.